Second Issue of Quest! Magazine

This year, I had set up the new editorial team among year 5 students. They were chosen based on certain criteria that I had outlined. Some of them were my students in Year 4 last year, so I know their ability very well. Then I gave them an opportunity to choose their own team that they think were capable of working with them. 

As last year only one issue of Quest! Magazine was published due to my other workloads constraints, this year I really want to make sure that new issues will be released each month. And this time, all things must be done by the students themselves. I will only be the supervisor.

This is their first time working as a team and first time working in an editorial team, so sometimes I need to repeat certain instructions, keep reminding about the dateline, re-explaining the same things over and over again...I really don't mind doing that. This is the process of learning. It is normal for kids. You need to keep on repeating the same things over and over again so that they will have a clear picture of what they are supposed to do.

One of the thing that made my day was when our team interviewed Puan Goon about CNY. There were a reporter, camerawomen and a photographer on duty. I just stood back and watched these kids in action. They were so good that I did not even need to interrupt the interview session what so ever. After the session, they were so happy and excited, and could not wait for the next project. I could see the shines in their eyes.

In the end, I was really quite surprised to see their ability to complete the task given. They were able to come out with their own article, interesting info, writing dedication forms, finding suitable word search for the monthly contest, etc.

Though some sections were unable to be completed. So I went for plan B in order to cope with the final deadline. Well, we should not be too rigid especially when dealing with the children.

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 could see them happy when the magazines were ready to be stapled. After stapling about 400 copies of magazines, they opened a sales counter and kept on promoting to the students and other teachers. At the end of the day, we managed to get about RM120 for the sales. About half of the copies were sold. We planned to continue selling after CNY. This will be a kickstart for a more exciting year for Quest! Magazine editorial team. InsyaAllah...